Billbergia oxysepala Mez
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Ule 40-b (holotype, B; photo F 11341), Rio Tejo on upper Rio Juruá, Acre, Brazil.
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Synonyms
Billbergia oxypetala Ule
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Description
Description - Leaves few in a tubular rosette, to 8 dm long; sheaths narrowly elliptic, obscurely appressed-lepidote; blades linear, acuminate, 22 mm wide, very laxly serrate with minute spines, subglabrous, apparently concolorous. Scape much shorter than the leaves decurved, slender, white-flocculose, the internodes long at base and very short at apex; scape-bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 15 cm long, 35 mm wide, entire, bright rose. Inflorescence pendulous, simple, lax, 2 dm long, 45 mm in diameter, white-farinose; rhachis straight. Floral bracts equal, much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acute; flowers sessile, suberect. Sepals unequal, some 11 mm long, others 13 mm, narrowly triangular or lance-triangular, more or less acuminate; petals linear, acute, 6 cm long, spirally recurved; stamens exserted; ovary about 10 mm long with a large epigynous tube, sulcate, not verrucose.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Acre Brazil South America|